Tag: Rene Descartes
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
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